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  2. Counting (music) - Wikipedia

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    Counts the beat number on the tactus, & on the half beat, and n-e-&-a for four sixteenth notes, n-&-a for a triplet or three eighth notes in compound meter, where n is the beat number. [ 7 ] Eastman system

  3. Eighth note - Wikipedia

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    An eighth note or a quaver is a musical note played for one eighth the duration of a whole note (semibreve). Its length relative to other rhythmic values is as expected—e.g., half the duration of a quarter note (crotchet), one quarter the duration of a half note (minim), and twice the value of a sixteenth note.

  4. Diatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    The half steps are E–F (the third to the fourth note) and B–C (the seventh to the recurring first note, often called the eighth note). In music theory a diatonic scale is a heptatonic (seven-note) scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from ...

  5. Octatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    Octatonic scales can be found in Chopin's Mazurka, Op. 50, No. 3 and in several Liszt piano works: the closing measures of the third Étude de Concert, "Un Sospiro," for example, where (mm. 66–70) the bass contains a complete falling octatonic scale from D-flat to D-flat, in the opening piano cadenzas of Totentanz, in the lower notes between ...

  6. Septuple meter - Wikipedia

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    8 time signature to be used for an irregular, or "additive" metrical pattern, such as groupings of 3 + 3 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 2 eighth notes. Septuple meter can also be notated by using regularly alternating bars of triple and duple or quadruple meters, for example 4 4 + 3 4, or 6 8 + 6 8 + 9

  7. Harmonic series (music) - Wikipedia

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    The saxophone's resonator is conical, which allows the even-numbered harmonics to sound more strongly and thus produces a more complex tone. The inharmonic ringing of the instrument's metal resonator is even more prominent in the sounds of brass instruments.

  8. Quarter tone - Wikipedia

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    A quarter tone is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale or an interval about half as wide (orally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which itself is half a whole tone. Quarter tones divide the octave by 50 cents each, and have 24 different pitches. Trumpet with 3 normal valves and a quartering on the extension valve (right)

  9. Jazz scale - Wikipedia

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    The added passing tone creates an eight-note scale that fits rhythmically evenly within a 4 4 measure of 8 eighth notes, thus making it useful in practicing. When an eighth note bebop scale run starts on the beat from a chord tone (i.e. the root, third, fifth or seventh) the other chord notes will also